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Upslope 38F rain..sweet.

BTV AFD..some nice disco...ha. Awesome though for you guys and resorts up North. As of 1236 PM EST Saturday...Report from nws employee at local resort in the northern Green Mtns continues to indicate light snow with some accumulation occurring. Have continued to mention likely pops with total daytime snowfall accumulation of an inch or two possible from Mansfield to Jay Peak. The localized BTV snow machine is having difficulties finding the off switch, which is not a bad thing, especially when some are having fun with product testing. Otherwise, flow becomes unblocked this aftn and depth of moisture decreases by 21z, which will result in decreasing areal coverage of snow shower activity. No significant changes to crnt fcst.

85-1..not bad. Ive always wondered...When do you sleep? 12am and 6am obs every day?

Looking like 3-3.5" new without measuring yet. Its funny how these little systems can sometimes cause the biggest road issues. Roads were a mess around town, saw multiple spin outs and poor Minivan from NJ struggling up a hill just spinning the front wheels.

Thanks. About 1" down now. Taking the kiddos up to Bromley tomorrow for first time this season, nice to have a little refresher.

Radar looking good for 2-4 I think.

Nam gone wild with the clipper tom in SVT/CVT:

For a SVT valley location it is pretty decent as some spots can not be (DDH, etc) Retention obviously is not great--but it's bad anywhere west of the spine up and down VT. 1500ft and up on the East Slope would be the ideal spot.

1.1" on .07" LE

Coming down nicely with some good snow growth..looks like maybe .5" down. Couple inches would be a win tonight for here.

Mitch taking an substantial early clubhouse lead season to date, still plenty of holes to be played though

Some of the meso models last night were backing a band up near your area around 12am or so, always nice to wake up to a surprise. Total here is 13.6" after some fluff last night in that same banding that was hitting Albany area. Missed out on the jack area to the south, but can't complain for early DEC.

9.0" as of noon. Missed the big stuff, but nice and wintry again. Been gusty at times here on the Western slopes. See if we can somehow squeak out a few more inches later today tonight to get 12" Interestingly, had almost exact same total and precip at 7am as the Peru COOP at 1700' up the hill. 8.3" with .76LE here 8.3" with .79LE at Peru COOP

Heading back home a day early today to get ahead of whatever this turns into. Always room to adjust up if needed

Out of town, but also hearing about some big time boomers rolling through SVT.

Decent size bust in SVT...nowhere had more than a few inches. Saw Mitch had 3"..think that was probably the max in all of SVT. Peru Coop at 1700' only reported .8". Stratton only 2". Warm nose and not a lot of total QPF (outside of the VT/MA border where they had closer to a 1") Had .7" here after the flip last night, never even flipped below 800' in town--rain only.

How did you make it in the event yesterday? Hopefully the few hundred feet you are lower than Alex didn't affect accum.

Couple tenths here tonight as some orographic snow kicked up in the past hour

Right, as PF mentioned your tucked in close, similar to me with the greens, so not as much distance for the downslope waterfall effect. Where is Nopoles, i guess a little further out?

RGEM is interesting, nukes this little sucker CVT/NVT up through NH and NW Maine. ALY totally MEH on this event in their AFD

Just looking at the topography looks like downsloping from S, SE, E. As you and Alex know though you can reap the rewards on the Nw/N upslope flow. HIE is known as the one of the biggest SE downslope pits I believe. Look at every 3k nam precip map, you could have March 93 redux coming up the coast and I swear it would print out .25" qpf for whitefield. It does the same for DDH, always a ridiculous minimum in any SE flow event. A bit overdone, but you get the idea.

Going to be some pasty elevation snow somewhere on the northern fringe if it plays out like this...

Yea, for sure. Still being in the valley I will end up on the wrong end of elevation events as well. In Manchester itself though there is pretty much nothing above 1250' house wise. Lots of stuff available near or above 2k though up the hill in the Bromley/Stratton corridor. Funny picking the kids up from school in center of town and doing the 4 minute drive home and them being shocked and excited to see the fresh blanket of white compared to the gray/wet (as you aptly put it)they had at school all day.

As Gene mentioned, definitely one of those early season elevation dependent events, not a huge snow maker, but big difference just down the road from my place into middle of Manchester. My temp was right around 31- 32F all day. Measured 1.6" new here and about 1-2 miles and 300-400 ft lower down into town white rain all day. In town: Here:

2.0" here on .25" LE Some massive aggregates at times, only added up to the 2" though. Ground was totally bare before this morning..only some patches in woods.